[rhn-users] Swap problem

[Philippe Marzouk]

Quince, Devin a écrit :
> Oops, I guess I misspoke. I believe I did make a swap file, not a
> partition, but how would one tell for sure? My swap on this box keeps
> showing up a LABEL=SWAP-sda7 in fstab and fdisk reports it as /dev/sda7
>

I would try to replace LABEL=SWAP-sda7 with /dev/sda7 as the first
argument in /etc/fstab.

Philippe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Roy S. Nielsen
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:53 AM
> To: Red Hat Network Users List
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Swap problem
> Importance: High
> 
> Not sure if this is helpful - but have you tried making a swap file
> instead of a swap partition?
> 
> -Roy
> 
> 
>>I have googled this, but am not finding anything helpful. Here is my
>>problem:
>>
>>Redhat ES 4 on Dell 2850 with Perc 4/di raid controller and one 73 gig
>>scsi drive
>>
>>I have the following partitions:
>>
>>/var
>>
>>/tmp
>>
>>/boot
>>
>>/
>>
>>/usr
>>
>>/home
>>
>>Swap
>>
>>The other day I came into work and found my machine had thrown a
>>processor error that Dell identified as a problem with that proc and
> 
> the
> 
>>running BIOS, so I upgraded the bios, but now I cannot get past
> 
> enabling
> 
>>swap space at boot. I have used mkswap and fdisk both to make a new
> 
> swap
> 
>>space, but at reboot the problem comes back.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Devin Quince
>>
>>System Administrator II
>>
>>Software Engineering System Administration Team (SESA)
>>
>>720-864-5089
>>
>>720-840-4643
>>